dreaming makes you stupid
I don't know if this happens to other people, but sometimes I wake up in the morning thinking of a brilliant idea. And then I go back to sleep for awhile, telling myself not to forget the brilliant idea. And then I wake up again, re-remind myself, go back to sleep, etc.
And eventually, I wake up for real, drink some coffee, and realize that my brilliant idea was completely developmentally disabled.
The first time I remember this happening, I was in college. I woke up reminding myself of a very important task I needed to perform: I needed to deposit spinach into my IRA.
As in, my Individual Retirement Account. At the bank. Spinach.
The sleep-logic was that:
1. It is good to save money.
2. Spinach is good for you.
3. Spinach is something you put into other things.
4. An IRA is something into which you put things.
5. Therefore, it would be good to put spinach into an IRA.
Yes.
This time, I slept in after an arduous day of travel, waking and falling back asleep several times, each time reminding myself that I must certainly start a new comedy show. Many comedy shows have themes, you know, and clever names to go with the themes -- this comedy show would be, apparently, for people who like things just as they are right now.
The name of the show?
STATUS QUOMEDY!
Or maybe it was more like "Status Quo-omedy!"
Seriously, is that not the fucking stupidest thing you've ever heard? Being asleep is like being drunk, although with less likelihood of illegally operating a motor vehicle.
And eventually, I wake up for real, drink some coffee, and realize that my brilliant idea was completely developmentally disabled.
The first time I remember this happening, I was in college. I woke up reminding myself of a very important task I needed to perform: I needed to deposit spinach into my IRA.
As in, my Individual Retirement Account. At the bank. Spinach.
The sleep-logic was that:1. It is good to save money.
2. Spinach is good for you.
3. Spinach is something you put into other things.
4. An IRA is something into which you put things.
5. Therefore, it would be good to put spinach into an IRA.
Yes.
This time, I slept in after an arduous day of travel, waking and falling back asleep several times, each time reminding myself that I must certainly start a new comedy show. Many comedy shows have themes, you know, and clever names to go with the themes -- this comedy show would be, apparently, for people who like things just as they are right now.
The name of the show?
STATUS QUOMEDY!
Or maybe it was more like "Status Quo-omedy!"
Seriously, is that not the fucking stupidest thing you've ever heard? Being asleep is like being drunk, although with less likelihood of illegally operating a motor vehicle.
Labels: dreams
posted by JenIsFamous at 6/30/2007 09:23:00 PM
3 Comments:
Jen,
I have always had stange, imaginative dreams. They usually in some way, involve water. I'm on a boat, or the room is flooding, or it's raining, or the river is rising, or my house is sliding into the sea. I'm never a great swimmer. What does that mean?
After experiencing many very strange dreams, I have some advice for you. Drink less coffee and go back to bed! Love MOM
At least you don't talk in your sleep. I once informed a dream crowd of people that my youngest daughter didn't require access to brain bank because she was only a baby.
It makes no sense to me now but it did then. It really did. There was a witness.
*looks sheepish*
It's like the old tale of the writer who would repeatedly wake up in the middle of the night with a brilliant story idea, but in the morning he had always forgotten it. One day, he put a pad and pen on his night-stand and when he woke up that night, he wrote down the idea and went back to sleep. He got up the next morningand his heart sank as he read his brilliant idea. "Boy meets girl."
I've often thought of keeping pen and paper at hand while I sleep, just to see how many stupid things occur to me while I am unconscious.
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